Message83765
doko: thanks for your interest encouraging more formal and generic
solutions to this.
For what it is worth, the current version of my patch (used in Tahoe) is
here:
http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/src/allmydata/__init__.py?rev=20081125155118-92b7f-f74fc964ebd9d3c59afde68b6688c56ce20cca39#L31
I had to add a special case for Arch Linux, which gets triggered after
the three main cases. The cases currently are, in order:
1. Parse /etc/lsb-release (fast, semi-de-facto-standard, generic,
hopefully a future de-jure-standard).
2. Invoke the Python Standard Library's platform.dist() (pros: fast,
has lots of customized special cases for different linux distros, cons:
has lots of customized special cases for different linux distros, gives
bogus answers for Ubuntu and Arch Linux)
3. Subprocess execute "lsb_release" (pros: a real de-jure-standard!
cons: slow, and is not actually a de-facto-standard since many important
Linux installations don't come by default with the package that provides
the de-jure-standard "lsb_release" executable, even though they do come
by default with the de-facto-semi-standard "/etc/lsb-release" file).
4. Arch Linux |
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2009-03-18 17:36:05 | zooko | set | recipients:
+ zooko, lemburg, georg.brandl, doko, draghuram, christian.heimes, sapetnioc, benjamin.peterson, pavel.vinogradov, bgomes |
2009-03-18 17:36:05 | zooko | set | messageid: <1237397765.65.0.747739107874.issue1322@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2009-03-18 17:36:04 | zooko | link | issue1322 messages |
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